Music: The Shoes of a Man

To Cleveland's pudgy, power-brained Merrill Kenneth Wolf (I.Q. 182) it
seemed high time people stopped regarding him as "something of a
freak." It was true that he had played Liszt on the piano at 22 months,
written a symphony at eight, received his A.B. from Yale at 14 to
become New Haven's youngest grad ever (TIME, Oct. 29, 1945). Since then
he had spent three years in earnest study with great Pianist Artur
Schnabel. Now, at 18, Kenneth wanted to be judged, he said, "solely by
the quality of my music."